By Nomonde Makaula

Umtata - Eastern Cape Education MEC Nomsa Jajula delivered 275 television sets, video machines and overhead projectors to Cicira College in Umtata. The equipments will be used in schools around Umtata and Kokstad.

The delivery forms part of a pilot project spearheaded by the Education Department to promote the use of alternative media in teaching. The equipment will assist especially in the learning and teaching of science and mathematics.

Education department spokesperson Professor Danie Breytenbach said the project would have two phases. The first, which was launched this week, involves rural schools with electricity being given priority in receiving electronic media equipment. Schools without electricity would be catered for during the second phase, Breytenbach said.

He said the project would be completed in time for the start of the 2004 school year.

Breytenbach said that at least 12 000 teachers were needed countrywide to ensure the continuous improvement of black pupils.

He said videotapes on maths; science, geography and biology would be supplied to the schools that received the equipment.
- BuaNews